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You Know You’re in College When…

This list was taken from The Burning Biscuit (from Digg). I’m going to cheat on this entry and just make comments on ones I find interesting. The ones that have comments are in bold and my comments are placed between within the [].

High school started before 8am, but now anything before noon is considered “early”. [It still is!!! You can ask my co-workers what time I get into work. ;p]

You have more beer than food in your fridge.

Weekends start on Thursday.

6am is when you go to sleep, not when you wake up. [ah… i still do this on the weekends]

You know many different ways to cook ramen noodles or macaroni and cheese. [this I learnt from Liam]

The health center gives out free condoms, and people take them… just in case.

Instead of falling asleep in class, you stay in bed. [haha. so true! why go to class and fall asleep in an uncomfortable chair and risk being caught when I can stay in my warm comfy bed.]

You know how late McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Qdoba, etc. are open.

You think it’s the weekend on a Wednesday and you don’t know what month it is.

You can’t remember the last time you washed your car.

Your underwear/sock supply dictates your laundry schedule. [I did laundry every 2 weeks – which was the point when I ran out of underwear and socks. now that I have a job, I’ve upgraded to an extra week of socks and underwear so I only have to do laundry every 3 weeks!]

You check Facebook/Myspace more than once a day.

You get drunk dialed on any night of the week.

You wash dishes in the bathroom sink.

You’ve fallen off a loft bed.

You talk about beer pong like it’s a sport.

Finding random people in your house is perfectly normal, and you even sympathize with them… sometimes when you wake up you have no idea where you are.

Your primary news sources are the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. [what’s wrong with getting our daily news from these 2 “reliable” and funny news sources?]

You open a beer at 10 am and your roommate asks you if there’s more.

The standard of meals per day falls to two, sometimes just one. [i woke up too late for breakfast, and since I had to rush to class, I’d miss lunch too, and usually end up eating only dinner]

Your trash is overflowing and your bank account isn’t.

You go to Target or Wal-Mart more than 3 times a week.

You wear the same jeans for 13 days without washing them.

Your breakfast consists of a coke or cereal bar on the way to class… anything with caffeine will do.

Quarters are like gold. [always needed quarters for laundry]

Your idea of feeding the poor is buying yourself some ramen noodles.

You live in a house with three couches, none of which match.

You try to study but seem to procrastinate by eating, going to study breaks, talking to people, etc…

You talk to your roommate on instant messenger when you’re both home. [why waste energy yelling across the room?]

You ask people what YOU did last night.

Certain things are now deemed “Facebook worthy.” When friends take pictures of you, you wonder how long it will take them to post them.

You’ve seen a hit and run involving a bicyclist/pedestrian.

You see people you know you’ve met but can never remember their names or how you know them. [I thought I just had a bad memory!]

You sleep more in class than in your room [this actually contradicts #7, and I’m a big follower of #7]

Your idea of a square meal is a box of Pop-Tarts.

You’ve traveled with bags of dirty clothes.

You go home to do your laundry because you’re too poor to pay the $2… or too lazy to go to a change machine. [unfortunately I didn’t have this luxury as I only went back home 2 or 3x a year]

You pay $100 for a book you don’t read once, return it four months later, and get $7. [these kids need to be taught a lesson on how to buy and resell books]

More than 20% of your household furnishings are made from milk crates.

You recognize the meat in the dorm soup as yesterday’s meatloaf, and thus decide to eat a nice bowl of cereal – a safe bet for any meal.

You use words like “thus” (see #40).

You throw out bowls and plates because you don’t feel like washing them.

Your beer pong table is nicer than all your other tables.

It takes preparation… and 3 people… to take out your garbage.

Going to the library is a social event.

You wear flip flops in the shower your freshman year… you know why.

You start joining clubs because of the free food. [I didn’t join the clubs. I just went to their events. *whistles*]

Visits home depend on how much money you have for gas. [as Ungsunghero said, they forgot to factor in the money they’ll be receiving when they get home.]

You skip one class to write a paper for another. [Ah… I’ve done this before.]

You have no idea where your tuition money is going… technology fees? I think not.

Bicycles don’t seem as lame as they did in high school.

You stay up late to finish homework then sleep through the class in which it was due.

Girls: You’ve balanced your foot on a shampoo bottle to shave.

Your backpack is giving you scoliosis.

You’ve written a check for 45 cents or stopped to get $2.00 of gas.

Your bill in the bookstore will be comparable to tuition.

Going to the mailbox becomes an ego booster/breaker. [if you knew me, I had packages coming in almost every other day. I always liked finding surprises.]

Most of your T.A.’s are foreign…what’s the deal?

You never realized so many people are smarter than you.

You never realized so many people are dumber than you. [I don’t know about smarter, but there were definitely a lot of dumb people]

Western Europe could be wiped out by a terrible plague and you’d never know, but you can recite the last episode of your favorite show verbatim. [I actually slept through 9-11 and only woke up sometime after the 2nd crash. I thought some meteoroid had crashed landed (like Armageddon)]

Care packages rank right up there with birthdays. [boooo! I never got a care package]

You craft ways to make any game into a drinking/stripping game.

You meet the type of people you thought only existed in movies.

Printers break down only when you desperately need them.

Anything can be cooked in a microwave. [you haven’t master the art of cooking as a college student if you can’t figure out how to cook everything with a microwave]

Two words: bike cops.

You have Safe Ride programmed into your phone.

Old school Nintendo… and guitar hero… are pretty much the best things ever.

Going to the grocery at midnight is completely normal. [I’ve gone to Safeway at 3am so many times]

You call restaurants that deliver more than you call your own family. [fortunately for me, there were about 10 restaurants next to my apartment building]

You’ve paid bills over $5… in coins.

You can’t imagine life without your computer/cell phone/ i-pod. [I don’t really think this belongs in this list as so many people too are so reliant on electronics]

Hoodies and sweatpants become the norm – jeans are considered “dressy” at certain occasions… like school.

A canceled class is almost as exciting as Christmas. [Unfortunately, to find out that the class was canceled usually required waiting in the lecture hall for 15 minutes and deciding to leave when the professor didn’t show up.]

Taking a nap in the library is perfectly acceptable.

Your professors speak English… as a second language.

Your teachers swear in class and no one cares.

Candles in your dorm room are considered contraband, but cigarettes are ok.

You bring back socks from the laundry room that may or may not be yours.

You know what people carrying suspiciously heavy backpacks after dark are doing…

The elevators take forever but you’ll wait 10 minutes just so you don’t have to climb stairs. [I never really got this. I lived on the 2nd floor and I always took the stairs. Stairs were always faster even if we started at the same time. I hate it when people take the elevator when only going up 1 floor. People still do that. The other day at work, some guy comes in and pushes the “2” button. He looks at me and explained and says that the stairs were too far away. I do have to admit that stairs should be conveniently placed next to the elevator which isn’t the case in my building, but the fact that he apologized or gave an explanation meant he knew it was just not socially acceptable to use the elevator to go up 1 floor.]

Your roommate asks you to check the weather on your computer when they’re standing 5 feet away from the door.

Showers become more of an issue.

You press the automatic door opener instead of simply grabbing the handle when you approach a door. [They must be referring to the handicap buttons. I always found it useless as it took longer for the door to open, then if I had pushed it. And once you push the button, using force is no longer an option as the door pushes back against you.]

Christmas lights seem to be acceptable all year round.

Class size doubles on exam days. [Did I tell you for my Calculus class, I went on the 1st day, went for the mid-terms and went for the final. After the final, I asked my friend if the professor change his hair style. He tells me he’s had that hair style for the entire semester. Apparently my impression of what my professor looked like came from his website that he posted assignments to.]

You donate plasma even though you know it’s pretty sketchy.

You are no longer thankful that fire alarms are here to protect you. [those idiots in the dorms pulled the fire alarm during midterms and finals. it was annoying as heck. then there was once when popcorn was overcooked and smoke from the microwave set it off too.]

You’ve bought Christmas presents from the book store and charged it to your student account so your parents pay for the gifts because you’re too broke.

You begin to include ketchup on your list of acceptable vegetables.

You stay on campus for hours in between classes when it’s too cold to walk home.

People have to help you kick the vending machine just so you can get your 50 cent bag of chips.

There’s always a “question kid” in at least one of your classes, and you really wish someone would just tell him/her to shut the hell up. [yes, the very annoying question kid. he should just stay after class or visit the professor during office hours.]

You steal dishes from the cafeteria so you don’t have to wash your own.

Laundry is an all-day event. [it’s not suppose to be? shoot, I must still be doing something wrong when I do laundry.]

You no longer find it uncool to take naps. In fact, you quite enjoy them. [naps are AWESOME!!!]

It’s illegal to drink in the dorms yet they sell an assortment of shot glasses, beer mugs, tankards, etc. in the bookstore.

You fill out credit card applications for the free food. [i got a free t-shirt once. I remembered it as the dumbest thing I did because I was contemplating if I should continue filling it out when I noticed it required my SSN, and I don’t really trust this guy giving out free t-shirts for credit card applications. I eventually did give him back the form and got my free t-shirt, and the Bank of America sends me a rejection letter months later.]

You’ve eaten cereal out of a cup… with a fork. [Hey! There was no clean spoon! They were all dirty and piled in the sink.]

Dressing up for Halloween becomes cool again.

You know at least one person who has dropped his/her cell phone into a toilet.

You hang multiple shirts on the same hanger to save space/money.

You become increasingly annoyed with the “old” people in class – props to them for going back to college but they generally ask really, really annoying questions.

You admire people’s alcohol bottle shrines.

You set your clock 5-10 minutes ahead so you can potentially make it to class on time.

You check ratemyprofessor.com (or something of the like) before choosing your class schedule. [I’m pretty sure each college had their own professor rating site.]

You text faster than you type. [This is just sad…]

You only find out a class is cancelled after you get there and sit for about ten minutes. [exactly what I said in #75]

You actually start using coupons, especially those school coupon books. [I was more of a technology/online shopping coupon user]

You open canned food and eat it… out of the can. [what’s wrong with eating out of a can? you save yourself from having to wash a bowl! I call that genius!]

You run out of black ink and, instead of buying a new ink cartridge, decide blue is a nice substitute… adds a little flair. [Haha! I personally had a black and white laser printer, so there was only one color to begin with. But I did have people IM me when they ran out of ink asking how they can tell it to use a different color to print. Speaking of printers, I never bought replacement toner cartridges, as it was cheaper to look for a deal on a brand new laser printer and sell the existing one.]

You have numbers in your phone with labels like “Sketchy Steve” and “Alcohol Guy.”

The food in your fridge may or may not be older than your little brother. [I think this is still true for my fridge today… I’m sometimes to find stuff that’s been in there since the beginning.]

You finish reading this and wonder how you can procrastinate next. [if I was still in college, this would definitely be true.]

Along with this entry, I’ll link you to this recent Little Gamers comic strip: Chocoate Dinner. Being grown up rocks!